The dust bowl was a natural disaster that made life very difficult for the people of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, and Texas. The yellowish-brown dust blew across the southern plains and turned black by the time it reached the northern plains.
This is the area the dust bowl swept through
The dust bowl was caused by incessant plowing of the land by humans caught up in money, mass production, and use of all the resources that the land had to offer.
Nothing was left over but a single layer of dust which, when the wind passed through, caused the dust to uprise and cause a cyclone of dust to go slurring into the air.
the dust covering everything!
Farmers could do nothing but watch.
Children and women wore protective clothing during this time such as sheets and face masks.
The dust bowl forced many farmers and others out of their homes.
Lawrence Svobida, a dust bowl survivor, explains his experience of the dust bowl. "Many of the townspeople, having no means of transport, are forced to abandon their property and leave on foot, with only the clothes on their backs and such bundles as may be carried in their hands."
The thick clouds of dust blew from the southern plains to the northern plains
so called "black funnels" begin from the sand blown up from over plowed land
1932
There are more and more dust storms.
As many as 14 and then increasing to 38 in the next month
1933
March
Franklin Roosevelt takes office
May
"The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act allots $200 million for refinancing mortgages to help farmers facing foreclosure."
"The Farm Credit Act of 1933 established a local bank and set up local credit associations."
September
A need for food leads to 6 million pigs slaughtered
October
Fleeing farmers cause the largest Agricultural work strike known to American History.
1934
May
The storms venture out into other states, 27 altogether, and 75% of the country affected.
June
Approval of The Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act.
(restricts banks from dispossessing farmers during stressful times)
Roosevelt takes 140 million acres of land out of the public to establish carefully monitored grazing districts. This is referred to as the Taylor Grazing Act
1935
January 15
The federal government forms a Drought Relief Service to coordinate relief activities. The cattle slaughtering program brought relief to many farmers who had no money to survive off of.
April 8
"FDR approves the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, which provides $525 million for drought relief, and authorizes creation of the Works Progress Administration, which would employ 8.5 million people."
April 14
The worst "black blizzard" of the Dust Bowl Occurs
Black Sunday.
1936
1937
February
L.A. Police send border control (to Oklahoma and Arizona) to keep those unwanted out.
March
Roosevelt begins Shelterbelt Project which is to replant the trees in the affected areas.
1938
People begin to replant the Land
1939
Rain Finally Comes ending the drought
The dust bowl prompted Westward Expansion (migration to the West).
-this is because many people were forced to evacuate due to the terrible conditions, which were nearly impossible for the people to live in.
The Dust Bowl(1930-1939)
By: Jesse Tofte, Mara Hedin, and Kellie Wolber.
Definition- a mass sandstorm lasting eight years.
The dust bowl was a natural disaster that made life very difficult for the people of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, and Texas. The yellowish-brown dust blew across the southern plains and turned black by the time it reached the northern plains.
The dust bowl was caused by incessant plowing of the land by humans caught up in money, mass production, and use of all the resources that the land had to offer.
Nothing was left over but a single layer of dust which, when the wind passed through, caused the dust to uprise and cause a cyclone of dust to go slurring into the air.
Farmers could do nothing but watch.
Children and women wore protective clothing during this time such as sheets and face masks.
The dust bowl forced many farmers and others out of their homes.
Lawrence Svobida, a dust bowl survivor, explains his experience of the dust bowl. "Many of the townspeople, having no means of transport, are forced to abandon their property and leave on foot, with only the clothes on their backs and such bundles as may be carried in their hands."
THE DUST BOWL TIMELINE
1931
Drought hits the Midwest/south
so called "black funnels" begin from the sand blown up from over plowed land
1932
There are more and more dust storms.
As many as 14 and then increasing to 38 in the next month
1933
March
Franklin Roosevelt takes office
May
"The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act allots $200 million for refinancing mortgages to help farmers facing foreclosure."
"The Farm Credit Act of 1933 established a local bank and set up local credit associations."
September
A need for food leads to 6 million pigs slaughtered
October
Fleeing farmers cause the largest Agricultural work strike known to American History.
1934
May
The storms venture out into other states, 27 altogether, and 75% of the country affected.
June
Approval of The Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act.
(restricts banks from dispossessing farmers during stressful times)
Roosevelt takes 140 million acres of land out of the public to establish carefully monitored grazing districts. This is referred to as the Taylor Grazing Act
1935
January 15
The federal government forms a Drought Relief Service to coordinate relief activities. The cattle slaughtering program brought relief to many farmers who had no money to survive off of.
April 8
"FDR approves the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, which provides $525 million for drought relief, and authorizes creation of the Works Progress Administration, which would employ 8.5 million people."
April 14
The worst "black blizzard" of the Dust Bowl Occurs
Black Sunday.
1936
1937
February
L.A. Police send border control (to Oklahoma and Arizona) to keep those unwanted out.
March
Roosevelt begins Shelterbelt Project which is to replant the trees in the affected areas.
1938
People begin to replant the Land
1939
Rain Finally Comes ending the drought
The dust bowl prompted Westward Expansion (migration to the West).
-this is because many people were forced to evacuate due to the terrible conditions, which were nearly impossible for the people to live in.